I say, let the market decide.
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MUSLIM SHOP'S PORK, ALCOHOL BAN SPARKS FRENCH DEBATE
Catherine Bremer, Reuters, 12/10/02
PARIS (Reuters) - A supermarket in a Paris suburb has caused a furor among
some shoppers and incurred the wrath of the mayor by stripping its shelves
of alcohol and pork to appeal to the largely Muslim local community.
The mayor of Evry, southeast of Paris, said the new owners who took over
the Franprix store in October risked turning the town into a ghetto by
selling only halal meat slaughtered according to Muslim rules and banishing
taboo products…
The new owners, Mohamed and Abdel Djaiziri, said they would sooner lose the
Franprix franchise than reverse their new policy.
"It was necessary to change the business to adapt to a primarily Muslim
clientele. If we lose the Franprix sign, it's not important. What's
important is that we keep doing good business," Abdel Djaiziri told
Liberation, the daily newspaper.
"We asked for a certificate to guarantee our meat is halal. That's
incompatible with selling pork. Is that against the law?"…
France has taken in many immigrants from its former North African colonies,
and its estimated 5 million Muslims make up the country's second-largest
religious group.
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